List of Famous people with last name Wolfflin

Eduard Wölfflin

First Name Eduard

Last Name Wölfflin

Born on January 1, 1831

Died on November 8, 1908 (aged 77)

Born in Switzerland, Basel-Stadt

Eduard Wölfflin was a Swiss classical philologist. He was the father of art historian Heinrich Wölfflin.

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Heinrich Wölfflin

First Name Heinrich

Last Name Wölfflin

Born on June 21, 1864

Died on July 19, 1945 (aged 81)

Born in Switzerland, canton of Zürich

Heinrich Wölfflin was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century. He taught at Basel, Berlin and Munich in the generation that raised German art history to pre-eminence. His three great books, still consulted, are Renaissance und Barock (1888), Die Klassische Kunst, and Kunstgeschichtliche Grundbegriffe.

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